Download or read book Hendricks the Hunter Or The Border Farm A Tale of Zululand written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hendricks the Hunter; Or, The Border Farm: A Tale of Zululand' is an adventure novel written by William Henry Giles Kingston. The story features a lush description of the setting in Zululand, a wild region with a mixture of different landscapes such as mountains, valleys, plains, and plateaus. A wagon drawn by a team of twelve oxen was seen traveling in the direction of Natal. The oxen were well trained and pulled steadily. The driver was part of the Khoikhoi tribe, who was standing on a board in front and used a large whip to encourage the animals.
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Download or read book Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm a Tale of Zululand written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zululand is a wild region of mountain ranges, deep valleys and gorges, roaring torrents, rapidly flowing rivers, plains covered with mimosa bushes, meadows where cattle pasture and grow fat, and level plateaux extending for many miles across it, several hundred feet above the level of the ocean; while scattered here and there, in some parts pretty thickly, are to be seen the kraals or villages and the mealy grounds of the natives. Wild as is the country, and although roads, properly speaking, there are none, it is sufficiently practicable for waggons in various directions. Some few years back, one of these vehicles, drawn by a span of twelve oxen, was seen slowly wending its way to the south-west, in the direction of Natal. It was a loosely yet strongly built machine on four wheels, fourteen feet long and four wide, formed of well-seasoned stink wood, the joints and bolts working all ways, so that, as occasionally happened, as it slowly rumbled and bumped onward, when the front wheel sank into a deep hole, the others remained perfectly upright. It was tilted over with thick canvas impervious to rain, the goods or passengers inside being thus well sheltered from the hardest showers, and even from the hot rays of the sun. The oxen pulled steadily together, as became animals long accustomed to work in company. On a board in front stood a Hottentot driver, his black visage surmounted by a broad-brimmed straw hat ornamented by a few ostrich feathers twined round the crown, while his hand held a whip of Brobdignagian proportions, the stock being fully fourteen feet, and the lash upwards of twenty-four feet in length, with which he occasionally urged on the leaders, or drew blood from the animals beneath his feet, as well as from those intermediate in the span, whenever a rise in the ground or its unusual roughness required an additional exertion of their strength.
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Download or read book The Tusk That Did the Damage written by Tania James and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heart-breaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.
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